Officially, and this is from Jerry Bruckheimer’s mouth: Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has been delayed to 2016 because of a scripting issue. He and everyone involved want to get it right. Sounds plausible enough. But given the problems Disney had with a big-money Johnny Depp, Bruckheimer-produced blockbuster last time out, suggestions are that the giants are mulling things over.
“We have an outline everyone loves but the script is not done,” revealed Bruckheimer in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s all a factor,” he said, answering a question on price tags. “We want a script that everyone’s signed off on and a budget that everyone’s signed off on.” Jeff Nathanson is working on the screenplay for Pirates 5 and Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are signed up to direct.
Is it worth the risk?
Money seems to dominate his answers when talking on the subject; it’s a pertinent and tender subject for both he and Disney as they look to plough even more money into a partnership that spectacularly bombed last time out. The Lone Ranger was panned critically, and cost the studio millions of dollars, as the high production budget and even higher marketing budget rendered it a failure.
The flop even got Depp thinking about throwing in the towel. "At a certain point you start thinking. When you add up the amount of dialogue that you say per year and you realise that you've said written words more than you've had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being,” he said to The BBC. “Are there quieter things that I wouldn't mind doing? Yeh, I wouldn't mind that."
One more, though, and we could see the end of those Pirates.
“We have an outline everyone loves but the script is not done,” revealed Bruckheimer in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s all a factor,” he said, answering a question on price tags. “We want a script that everyone’s signed off on and a budget that everyone’s signed off on.” Jeff Nathanson is working on the screenplay for Pirates 5 and Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are signed up to direct.
Is it worth the risk?
Money seems to dominate his answers when talking on the subject; it’s a pertinent and tender subject for both he and Disney as they look to plough even more money into a partnership that spectacularly bombed last time out. The Lone Ranger was panned critically, and cost the studio millions of dollars, as the high production budget and even higher marketing budget rendered it a failure.
The flop even got Depp thinking about throwing in the towel. "At a certain point you start thinking. When you add up the amount of dialogue that you say per year and you realise that you've said written words more than you've had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being,” he said to The BBC. “Are there quieter things that I wouldn't mind doing? Yeh, I wouldn't mind that."
One more, though, and we could see the end of those Pirates.
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